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    In the first sentence. "I really love you." is a way of saying, "I love you a lot." "I really only love you." means "I actually only love you." In the second sentence, the position of the adverb changes the meaning of the sentence. "I can't always get up in the morning." means that the speaker doesn't get up in the morning every day. "I always can't get up in the morning" means the speaker never gets up in the morning. Third sentence, when using the word "contact" you don't need a preposition, just a noun or pronoun, so you would just say, "I will contact you"
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    October 28, 2013
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    I would add that you could also say it like this: Though he is a strong man, he could not lift the weight. This is perfectly fine too.
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    October 28, 2013
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    Why use пошел or пошли as infinitives? In Russian TV and movies, I often see this construction. Where a person wants to tell someone to go away, he will say пошел. Or if he wants a bunch of people to go with him, he will say пошли. There are many more examples of Russians using past tense verbs when they are talking about the present tense. Why is this? Where can it be used?
    October 28, 2013
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    у тёщи на блинах There's this restaurant in Saint Petersburg called "У тёщи на блинах" that all the travel shows visit out of habit. I have tried to translate the title but it doesn't make any sense at all. Could someone translate this for me literally word-by-word, because I've never seen this kind of construction before. Thanks!
    September 25, 2013
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    Both of them are technically correct but I like the second one better. That's what I would say.
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    September 25, 2013
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    I agree with Susan612 I've never heard this one before. A hand is just another word for a person's handwriting, sort of a fancier way of saying it. "Making notes in a precise hand" just means writing something with good handwriting.
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    September 25, 2013
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    Пусть I see the word пусть everywhere but most of the time it makes no sense. There is a Russian song called Пусть всё будет так как ты захочешь. I tried to translate it and it came out as: Let all will be such as you want it which makes no sense. So where would a Russian person use this word?
    September 1, 2013
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    Nobody really knows what "shoring up" means literally, it's kind of a slang term. It means to strengthen or improve. A more formal way of saying it would be to say. "Improving security along the border with Mexico" If there was a dam that was about to burst, the government would send builders to "shore it up"
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    August 8, 2013
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